I enjoyed writing my 2015 end of year book review so much that I was itching to write another. The problem was, I had to power through quite a few more reads before I could find myself in a position where this was possible. Then I went on holiday and read a stack books while…
You can only hope the year is going to be a good one when you start it off with a book like Elizabeth Gilbert’s [easyazon_link identifier=”1594634726″ locale=”US” tag=”birdgehls10-20″]Big Magic – Creative Living Beyond Fear[/easyazon_link]. Yep. You read right. Elizabeth Gilbert, the same author of Eat, Pray, Love. Which – in the interest of full disclosure…
An unfortunate side effect of moving overseas is the inevitable dip in your social life. The hours in Sydney that would normally have been spent stuffing myself full of sushi with friends, pumping dat iron at the gym and seeing my third movie for the week, were in London filled with work, writing and books….
In 1998, my mother came back from work one day, a book for me nestled in her bag. This was not an unusual occurrence, as I was a voracious reader from a young age, reading everything from well, books, to the back of shampoo bottles in the bathtub. My mother worked as a teacher and…